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Phlebotomy comes from the greek word 1.__________- meaning vein 2.__________- meaning cut |
1. Phlebos 2. Temnein |
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Two main phlebotomy procedures |
Venipuncture Capillary puncture |
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Other term for capillary puncture |
Dermal puncture Skin puncture |
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Crude tools are discovered that also suggest this country's possibility of blood letting for therapeutic reasons around 1400 BC |
Egypt |
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Application of leech to patients are discovered in? |
Tomb paintings |
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He is also known as the father of medicine/father of modern science that is responsible for the Humoral theory, which believed illness can be caused by imbalance of these humors in the body. 460-377 B. C. |
Hippocrates |
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He believed that blood was formed in the liver and brought from the intestines by the portal vein |
Galen |
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He discovered the presence of valves in veins |
Andreas Vesalius |
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Discovered pulmonary circulation |
Realdus Columbus |
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Discovered blood circulation from observations on living animals and dissections He also determined the functions of valves |
William Harvey |
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Removal of blood in the body |
Blood letting |
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Venesection comes from the latin word1.__________- meaning vein2.__________- meaning cut |
1. Vena 2. Sectio |
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It was frequently doned because it was a dangerous method that involves the temporal artery vein |
Arteriotomy |
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4 blood letting techniques |
1. Venesection 2. Arteriotomy 3. Cupping 4. Leeching |
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Involved a procedure that required a placing of suction cup over an area of skin |
Cupping |
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Blister or swollen area drew the underlying blood away from the inflamed area and directed it to the surface of the skin. The blood or fluid in the blister was not removed |
Dry cupping |
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Cutting the skinbso that blood and fluid can be extracted. |
Wet cupping |
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3 therapeutic properties of leech |
1. Vasodilation property 2. Anesthetic property 3. Anti-coagulant property |
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Scientific name of leech used in leeching |
Hirudo medicinalis |
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Other term for leeching |
Hirudo therapy |
